jQuery Camp 2008 Announced

The jQuery Team is pleased to announce the second annual jQuery Camp! jQuery Camp 2008 will be held on Sunday, Sept. 28, the day before The Ajax Experience, in Boston, MA (location TBA).

Last year, over 100 jQuery developers gathered for a full day of jQuery sessions, which included talks from such big names as jQuery creator John Resig and other core team members, as well as talks from expert users exploring new and exciting jQuery projects. It brought together the largest group of jQuery Core Team members ever assembled, and gave users the opportunity to pick their brains and pitch new ideas.

The event was a *clear* success, and this year’s camp promises to be even better.

jQuery Camp 2008 will offer two tracks, providing both introductory and advanced sessions, covering a variety of topics. Ajax development, mashups, security and the recently released jQuery UI component and effects library are just some of the topics already lined up.

jQuery Camp 2008 will charge a nominal fee of $50 per person, which will include lunch. Attendees need NOT be registered for The Ajax Experience to attend. Registration will open in July; keep an eye on jQuery.com for more details!

For those attending The Ajax Experience, show organizers have recently announced a half-day time slot for additional jQuery sessions, on September 29th at the conference center. The agenda is still up in the air, but we’re thinking of offering a “Dream Team Code Review” session, where users can have code reviewed by members of the jQuery team. We’re interested in your feedback; would you attend this session?

jQuery Camp 2008 is a truly fantastic opportunity to learn from the jQuery team and socialize with top jQuery developers; we’re looking forward to meeting everyone!

@Paul: We tried that last year and we still ended up coming out of pocket for some expenses. For an OSS project, it’s certainly not fair for any team member to have to do that. The $50 cost is very reasonable especially for the level of expertise that will be presenting.

With that said, we’re still going to try to line up sponsors to add additional value to the event but we don’t want to rely on that and not be able to give a fantastic learning experience for everyone.

Does anyone know if there are going to be any videos of this available? The mountain west ruby conference was videotaped and made available online for attendees that could not make it. Considering the price of fuel these days I would gladly pay more for material if I can avoid some travel.

Can anyone give me a breakdown of what these “sessions” are? I’m trying to pitch it to my boss so he’ll let me go. ;) But he wants the ol’ cost-benefit analysis type deal. Is there a list of sessions? We need details! :)

I wonder if you’d be interested in a short talk at the conference on real-world applications? We’ve recently just released the plusmarketsgroup.com web site which features movable, customisable pods which have their content updated in real-time via AJAX (and their settings remembered…) – see http://plusmarketsgroup.com/PLUS_myplus.shtml, and tradingturqouise.com which features lots of animation and AJAX, auto-resizable iFrames, and a stand-alone book viewer with bags of features including communication with the parent window.

All done in jQuery (obviously – why wouldn’t you :-) ), and I’ve some (hopefully) interesting experiences and thoughts that I’d be glad to share. Might be nice to show people that jQuery is being used on real-world, top-end web sites; these are multi-million pound trading sites…

I tried out a lot of javascript libraries/frameworks when I was starting up development for my price comparison site/mashup, but it was love at first sight with jQuery :-) – haven’t looked back ever since. Anyways, in the same vein as “Hogsmill”, I was wondering if people would be interested in a talk featuring this kind of a real world app. Who do

Sorry…hit the “return” key accidentally…guess there is no way to undo the incomplete comment :-( . Here is the full thing:

I tried out a lot of javascript libraries/frameworks when I was starting up development for my price comparison site/mashup, but it was love at first sight with jQuery :-) – havenâ€™t looked back ever since. Anyways, in the same vein as â€œHogsmillâ€, I was wondering if people would be interested in a talk featuring this kind of a real world app. I saw “Ajax development, mashups” in the list of topics being discussed. Is there someone in particular I need to contact if I want to present a short talk on the application at the conference? You can check out the site at http://www.xatori.com

Like the redesign – the one thing you need to do is made a:hover more different to the original a. A slight change in colour, and a pointy finger is not enough for good, clear web design. Otherwise, I like it a lot!

Would love to see these talks either streamed or taped for posting after the event. I’d gladly pay the registration fee for access to the content, it’s just too expensive to travel to Boston from Europe for this event alone.